i have to create a product presentation tool that runs offline on an ipad.
i have a program wirtten in c# to create a presentation and this program has an export function, this export function creates a whole little homepage (only html and javascript) with the product slider - everything works fine, also the online presentation is perfect.
but the capital problem is, how could i run this offline on the ipad?
what i already tried:
- put the scripts to dropbox and tried to start index.html on ipad (the local links doesnt work)
- i tried to chache the whole page, but that was too much for caching..
there is also one solution i would prefer -> phonegap, but there i see the problem with creating the app... the c# programm should prepare everything, so the clients should take this exported file/files or direcotry and but it anywhere and the ipad should run this presentation offline.
thanks guys
You can try to make a simple app with UIWebView inside and load your local resources into this UIWebView.
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The way your clients are able to add the presentation files might be using iTunes File Sharing. And you can get these files from Documents directory
Hope this will help.
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I am trying Mongo Stitch to see if I can use it for some small web apps.
I created a simple application to play with some incoming web hooks and triggers, and called it MyApp. I am now expanding the application, and I have a purpose for it, so I'd like to give it a more meaningful name. However, on the Stitch Applications page, the only feature available in the app context menus is "Delete".
I expect I could do an export and an import using the console command, and editing the text files in-between, and if there is no other option, that is what I will do. However, it seems such an obvious oversight, I wonder if I have just not seen a menu option somewhere.
Currently, you cannot change it. Exporting it, changing the app name (and removing the clientAppId), and importing again should work. Essentially creating a new app.
For my business I need to be able to show a potential client a website I generate with a program called Pano2VR, which is a virtual tour program. This program takes some panoramic photos linked with each other and can generate a virtual tour out of them (as example: www.casas-fotoart.de/virtualtours ). The output this App gives can be either HTML5, Flash or both (flash if available and html5 for mobile devices, for example).
I need to be able to show that on my iPad while offline. i haven't found any solution for that so I tried to build a easy App for that, which I thought it wouldn't be complicated.
I generated a html5-only virtual tour and I droped the output into the "Suporting Files" group on the Xcode project. I added a UIWebView and on viewDidLoad I set it so it loads the html file.
The files I'm droping are like these (these inside the ipad folder):
The html file loads into the webView, but it just displays "This content requires HTML5/CSS3, WebGL, or Adobe Flash Player Version 9 or higher.", even though when loading these files from the net, it loads perfectly. I know this message comes from the html file.
Any idea on how to make it work will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Your problem is this probably - XCode is mangling the JS files, I assume because it's trying to compile them
I have a full website html, css, images, javascripts and video on my local hardrive all contained in a folder.
the website works great on my PC but i need to transfer it to an iPad, i was thinking that this should be easy ... well its not since i cant just copy the site over and run it like on my PC.
so my next step was to try and make a .webarchive of the site but since it has a lot of jquery and video files i cant just use safari since it wont include any of the video files and so on.
was hoping someone knows of a tool or a method to convert a folder into a webarchive.
Just open the website over safari and then Save As... web archive.
My currently unsolved issue is exactly the reverse one.
I'm trying to use responsivepx to determine breakpoints on a responsive design I am working on locally. I am just dropping the local url into the designated area and trying to open but it doesn't work, and I can't figure out why. Any help would be appreciated. It works fine on external urls fine.
Working locally is difficult because tools such as reponsivepx rely on accessing a publically available URL. Some options to over come this include;
Create your own iframe page and incluse the local url in the source. Using this allows you to set all of the breakpoints you need.
Use Responsive Design Test - provides access to ipad and iphone portrait and landscape modes
Mediaquery Bookmarklet - shows exactly which media queries are currently active and the screen resolution
I'm absolutely new to iOS App development (I haven't actually started yet, still in a design phase).
The task that I have to accomplish with my app is to download a zip from somewhere, extract anywere to local storage and display its content (html pages with javascript) in a embed webkit widget.
The questions are:
1) Will my app have access to any folder of my iPad storage memory?
2) Will my app's embedded Webkit widget be able to display local html pages (like file:///somewhere/over/the/rainbow.html ?
3) WIll that local page be able to use Ajax method (over httpxmlrequest) to dynamically load external scripts or xml (also locally stored - ie ./something.xml)?
Thank in advance for any help!
No it can't access any file. Apps are sandboxed on iOS. You can only access the app bundle's content and documents folder (a writable area unique to your app).
Yes - provided said content is in the areas mentioned in (1). This is how Phonegap-based apps work.
Yes - they can. We've done exactly this extensively in several of our apps.